Day: September 19, 2018

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mrs May spoke to EU leaders for 10 minutes over dinner in Salzburg Theresa May has urged EU leaders to focus their minds on getting a Brexit deal in the next two months, saying negotiations will not be extended. At a dinner in Salzburg, she told her 27 counterparts…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mrs May briefed EU leaders for 10 minutes in Salzburg The onus is on both sides to do a Brexit deal, Theresa May has told fellow EU leaders as she urged them to back her “serious” Chequers plan. At a dinner in Salzburg, she told her 27 counterparts a…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionNorth Korea’s agreed to shut one of the country’s main missile launch sites. Laura Bicker considers what might happen next.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is ready to restart negotiations with Pyongyang, with the aim of denuclearising North Korea “by 2021”. Discussions between the two…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Ma said trade should not be used as a weapon Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who once boasted his e-commerce firm would spur the creation of one million jobs in America, has rowed back on those plans. Citing the ongoing trade war between the US and China, Mr Ma…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the judiciary committee, has set a Friday deadline for Christine Blasey Ford The Senate has given a woman who accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault until Friday to decide if she will testify. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck…

Image copyright Police handout Image caption Cerissa Riley and Grant Robicheaux may have met victims at music festivals, prosecutors say A California couple accused of preying on two women, drugging and sexually assaulting them have denied the allegations, their lawyers say. Grant William Robicheaux, 38, and Cerissa Laura Riley, 31, have been charged with attacking…

Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption HMS Endeavour landed in Australia in 1770 The hunt for the final resting place of Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour may soon be over – in time for the 250th anniversary of its voyage to Australia. The Endeavour, then known as Lord Sandwich II, was sunk with 12…

Image copyright Police handout Image caption Antonio White, 54 A Georgia man has been given a life sentence in jail for raping a woman after she recognised him as her attacker six years later. Antonio White, 54, was identified by the victim in 2013 at a train in downtown Atlanta, officials say. “She was overcome…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mueller-Korenek cycled at the take-off speed of an Airbus A340 The cycling world land speed record has been broken by a US cyclist. Denise Mueller-Korenek rode a custom bike at an average of 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on 16 September. Following a…